The BC provincial government has announced an investment of $105 million over three years to reduce the amount families and seniors pay for prescription drugs.
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The month of February is known for expressions of caring, centred on Valentine’s day. It offers an opportunity to help children learn how to extend feelings of love and compassions to all those around us, near and far, by using a range of colours to express compassionate behaviour.
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The Kelty Centre has developed a list of recommended resources for those wishing to learn more about supporting the mental health of newcomer children and youth. For more information, click here.
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A new posting on the DadCentral.ca addresses the particular challenges facing Aboriginal dads within the historical trauma experienced in their communities. It discusses how accepting the challenges of parenting can assist in building self-esteem and a sense of personal pride through the experiential learning of the parenting process.
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Healing Families, Helping Systems is a trauma-informed practice guide for working with children, youth and families, produced by the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (2016). The guide, designed for use by system planners, leaders and practitioners in the field of children, youth, and families, aims to identify trauma-informed approaches, raise awareness of evidence-informed approaches to trauma-informed service delivery, and to increase capacity amongst service providers.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada has recently released a new chapter of the Family-Centred Maternity and Newborn Care: National Guidelines. Chapter 6: “Breastfeeding”
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Storybooks Canada is a free open educational resource that promotes literacy and language learning in homes, schools, and communities. It makes 40 stories from the African Storybook available with text and audio in English, French, and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages of Canada. They are also in the process of developing Indigenous Storybooks and the Global Storybooks literacy portal. The aim is to enjoy and share the stories.
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Through the Province’s Early Learning and Child Care Agreement (ELCC) with the Government of Canada, the Province is in the process of converting around 2,500 licensed child care spaces – with a priority on infant and toddler spaces – into low-cost spaces at existing child care facilities across B.C. Parents with children in these prototype sites will pay no more than $200 a month per child for full-time enrolment during regular business hours, regardless of the care type. For some low-income families, child care could be free.
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The Ministry of Children and Family Development is currently re-organizing the early years’ services that directly support children and families. For more information about the re-organization process and links to the Early Years Framework policy document, FAQs about the re-organization, the Early Years Professional Development pilot portal, and The Science of Early Child Development (SECD) resources, click here.
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The IMHP Community Training live sessions/webinars have been completed. All the sessions are now archived and available for viewing. These sessions are great for staff and or student training and can be accessed any time by all AHSUNC/CAPC/CPNP project staff until 2020.
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At the start of the 2018/19 academic year, the University of British Columbia welcomes Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot, and Dr. Margaret Moss to their leadership roles within the university, and announces new funding for the nurse practitioner program and for an online, part-time ECE certificate program.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada notes on their website that “today, most mothers are breastfeeding their babies” and has produced a booklet Ten Valuable Tips for Successful Breastfeeding, available as a downloadable pdf, or for ordering as a free booklet to hand out to participants.
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Best Start Resource Centre is offering a free,bilingual, self-paced, online course on breastfeeding, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Breastfeeding, set up in an easy-to-access “Topics” format.
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Co-developed by the federal government with the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapirit Kanatami and the Métis National Council, this newly-announced IELCC Framework includes 3 frameworks (First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation). First Call member BC Aboriginal Child Care Society and their Executive Director Karen Isaac worked many hours on the development of this national framework and led the BC regional consultations in the lead up to this announcement.
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Five Ideas for Building Intergenerational Relationships looks at the award-winning work of Maria Cortese to educate the whole child with her junior kindergarten class, building relationships with older adults living in the neighbourhood adjoining her school, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in the Lower Mainland.
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Spirit Bear and Children Make History, available through the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, explores the role of children in creating change. The book tells the story, in a format accessible for young children, of the landmark human rights case for First Nations children at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (www.fnwitness.ca).
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We spoke with Rosa Palacios, Family and Seniors Programs Coordinator at Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, who is enthusiastic about integrating Reggio principles into the drop-ins as part of their ongoing best practices commitment, which includes promoting autonomy, decision-making, democracy, and following people’s interests and experience. For over ten years now, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House in Vancouver has been implementing the Reggio Emilia approach in their work with children in their childcare programs. Click here to read more!
We spoke with Chris Koop, of North Island Community Services, who has worked for the past 12 years as the Coordinator of CPNP programs for families in Port McNeill and Port Hardy, two small towns on north-east of Vancouver Island, overlooking Queen Charlotte Strait, at the northern tip of the Island Highway. Click here to read more!
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Esquimalt Neighbourhood House Society’s CPNP programs have developed a flexible format that enables them to easily set up programming in a variety of locations and respond to arising needs within their community. Click here to find out more.
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